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| name = Mumu | image = Mumu.jpg | director =Joël Séria | starring = Sylvie Testud
Jean-François Balmer
Dominique Pinon
Michel Galabru | music = Reinhardt Wagner | runtime = 90 minutes | country = France | language = French | released =24 March 2010 (2010-03-24) }} Mumu is a French film directed by Joël Séria, released in 2010. The screenplay, of a largely autobiographical nature, was written by the director from 1993 - a long planned project for Séria who had not directed a full-length film since 1987.

Plot

In 1947, Roger Lantier, 11 years old, is expelled, again, from his school - to the despair and anger of his father. He goes next to a new school where 'Mumu' holds sway, "the meanest teacher in the department". This meeting is one that will leave its mark on the young student for ever.

Cast

• Sylvie Testud as Mlle. Mulard, 'Mumu', teacher.
• Balthazar Dejean de la Bâtie as Roger Lantier
• Jean-François Balmer as priest
• Bruno Lochet as 'Saucisse', the supervisor
• Dominique Pinon as father of Roger
• Prune Lichtle as mother of Roger
• Michel Galabru as Gâtineau, an old actor
• Valentin Ferey as Perchard, best friend of Roger
• Helena Noguerra as mother of Perchard
• Antoine de Caunes as the blind colonel

External links

• Mumu at the Internet Movie Database